Over the first two seasons of Taylor Sheridan’s star-powered, high-octane spy thriller series “Lioness,” certain patterns and rhythms have been established, making it easier to navigate the deep-in-the-weeds geopolitics. 1. Zoe Saldaña’s Joe McNamara, the
You know that term “too big to fail”? It’s usually reserved for conglomerations or industries that would literally plunge the world into disarray if they were to ever collapse, but I couldn’t help but, for
From Jean Harlow and James Dean through Simone Battle and Anton Yelchin, entertainment history is filled with instances of performers dying just as audiences had begun to appreciate how much they had achieved at a
It feels like something that came to creators Chuck Lorre, Zak Penn, and Bill Brady after a couple drinks: What if we took characters from our show named after the beginning of the universe and
It’s not often you can say a horror series has a pretty flawless record. For every Halloween, there’s Halloween: Resurrections. For every The Exorcist, there’s The Exorcist 2: The Heretic. For every Children of the
I mentioned this in my most recent newsletter (you can sign up here, BTW), but Sector M recently celebrated its first anniversary on June 11! Now we are on to Year Two, and there’s a
Some lives become so woven into the fabric of our culture that we experience their influence long before we ever learn their name. For generations of Black Americans, George E. Johnson, Sr., was one of
“Little House on the Prairie” is an American institution. Laura Ingalls Wilder’s fictionalized semi-autobiographical accounts of growing up on the American frontier in the 1870s and 1880s have been wildly popular since the first book’s
Born and raised in North Carolina but now based near Harvard, where he’s taught filmmaking since 1986, Ross McElwee is one of the most original, consistently excellent nonfiction filmmakers of the past half-century. His powerful
The DCU has an uphill battle ahead of it. On one end you’ve got the MCU to compete with, which would have been a daunting task if it was ten years ago. But you also